December 15, 2022 at 21:13
French police confronted rioting fans.
[Rete d’oltremare]According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, at 14 local time after the French team’s 2-0 victory over Morocco in the semi-finals of the World Cup, fans of the two teams erupted in many places in France. of 100 people.
Russia’s Satellite News Agency quoted France’s Le Figaro as saying that in Nice, France, after a masked man hurled verbal taunts at Moroccan fans, the two sides began throwing fireworks at each other. affair.
On the Champs Elysees in the French capital Paris, fans initially celebrated peacefully with fireworks and chanting, but then clashes broke out between fans and police. In Lyon and Montpellier, France, police used tear gas on rioting fans.
French police have so far arrested more than 100 people. Police arrested 40 militants in Paris for illegal carrying of weapons.
